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Que é muito legal (that’s pretty cool)
Written by VictoriaDenison
So Jimmy went to Brazil on business for a mere four days and, despite what sounded like a hectic schedule, came back with a serious new drum kit, an inspirational new music partner and another fantastic project for the Abubilla Foundation to support. ‘Que foi rapido’ as they would say in Sao Paulo. It’s obvious from Jimmy’s blog post on the subject that Flavio Pimenta is a special character and very cool – in fact he uses the word ‘cool’ four times in total. So, in order to see exactly how cool very cool is, I did a bit of my own research on Flavio and Meninos do Morumbi. There’s a whole host of videos on YouTube with performances from the Meninos band, but I think you really need to start here….two short films about how it all started and what has been achieved so far. Featuring, of course, Flavio Pimenta who, I agree, is uber-cool and has the most appealing Brazilian accent ever.
The films are a bit of a wake up call as to how life can be so different depending on where you are born – something to show my over-privileged kids I feel. Here they are….